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TIL the province of Guangdong in southern China has 126 million people in an area smaller than the state of Missouri.

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P1kWZ TIL of Louis Wyman - Winner of 1974 New Hampshire Senate Election by just 2 votes, and served only 3 days while marred in an epic dispute then lost a rematch the next year convincingly
XEpdD TIL Dustin Hoffman "helped" co-star Meryl Streep in a scene of 1979 film Kramer vs Kramer by slapping her hard in the face without warning. "This was my first movie, and it was my first take in my first movie, and he just slapped me." Despite a contentious working relationship, both won Oscars.
1X5r TIL George Carlin went off on his Vegas crowd: “People who go to Las Vegas, you’ve got to question their fucking intellect to start with. Traveling…thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic… fucking people with very limited intellects.”
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